Kōrero: Hot springs, mud pools and geysers

Ki mua

Springs of Mother Earth

Whai muri

Coloured, mineralised sinter, including cyanobacteria, surrounds one of the Springs of Mother Earth at Waimangu.

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GNS Science

Reference: CN24589/5

by Lloyd Homer

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Carol Stewart, Hot springs, mud pools and geysers – Hot springs and related features, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/6489/springs-of-mother-earth (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Carol Stewart, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.